The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Care carries out the activities aimed at solving occupational health and safety problems in Lithuania. Occupational health care system in Lithuania consists of three levels: 1) primary occupational health centers in the industry; 2) general practitioners taking care of employees' health; and 3) the State Labor...

PURPOSE Shoe manufacturing workers are exposed daily to an extensive range of potential physical and chemical occupational hazards. Shoe manufacturing in Indonesia is one of the industrial sectors that has shown sustained growth amongst the newly industrialized countries (NICs). In this study, we investigated the possible potential exposure of the workers to physical and occupational hazards an...

The history of the Center for Occupational Health (COH) at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague dates back to the early 1950s. The Center was established on January 1, 1952. The first director of the Institute was Prof. Jaroslav Teisinger, M.D., D.Sc. (1902–1985), the founding father of occupational medicine in former Czechoslovakia, and the head of the first Czech Department of Oc...

From the 1970s to 2000, the occupational accident rate in Korea showed a continuous decline. However, the rate has remained stagnant since 2000 even when the fatal injury rate has decreased 40% from that year. Injuries caused by being caught in objects have decreased while those caused by slips and falls on same level and falls from the height have increased. In 2010, the non-fatal injury rate ...

Edyta Reszka1, Ewa Nowakowska-Świrta2, Maciej Kupczyk3, Wojciech Dudek2, Dominika Świerczyńska-Machura2*, Tomasz Wittczak2, Jan Rykała4, Monika Przybek1, Ewa Jabłońska1, Beata Kręcisz2, Piotr Kuna3, Wojciech Wąsowicz1 and Cezary Pałczyński2,3 1Department of Toxicology and Carcinogenesis, Nofer Institute of Occupational Diseases, Łódź, Poland 2Department of Allergology and Environmental Health, ...

Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the trends in the incidence of occupational diseases in Lithuania during the period of 1999–2008. The analysis concerned both the individuals with diagnosed disease(s) and the number of diagnosed cases. Material and Methods: Incidence rates were calculated using data from the Republic of Lithuania National Register of Occupational Diseases and...